Nintendo Wii

How To: Format an SD card to FAT32 for Wii hacking

Formatting an SD card to FAT32 format, the format that the Nintendo Wii can read, is the very first step that you need to take to hack you Wii. There's a lot of other reasons to do it as well, so even if you don't have a Wii you're trying to hack but want a FAT32 formatted SD card for some other reason, this video should still teach you everything you need to know.

How To: Add apps to the Homebrew channel for Nintendo Wii

For this tutorial to work, you will need the Homebrew channel already loaded onto your Wii, an SD card (preferably one with more than 64 MB of storage) and your chosen homebrew application. Then just follow the steps in this video to load your apps!

How To: Install ios249 on the Wii and play backup games

ios249 is a sweet little hack for the Wii that allows you to play backup burned copies of games on your console. Pirated games will work too, although we DO NOT condone piracy. This video will walk you through the whole rather elaborate process of installing it on a hacked Wii with the Homebrew channel. You will need to download a whole mess of free software:

How To: Use Wiiflow USB Loader

In this tutorial, we learn how to use Wiiflow USB Loader. First, go to the homebrew channel and then click on the wiiflow usb loader. After this, you will see a bunch of games for you to choose from. Browse through these until you see one you like, then select it. You can click the arrows to browse between different games and look at the covers of them. After you find one that you like you can play it right away from your PC. To change your settings, go to the lower left hand corner and chang...

How To: Reassemble a Nintendo Wii

Fixing your own electronical equipment can be difficult, but save you quite a bit of money. The bad thing is that once you've opened it up, putting it back together again, can be quite a hassle. Once you've opened it up, you're pretty much on your own. So in this tutorial, find out how to reassemble a Nintendo Wii. Good luck and remember that opening your Wii, may have voided your warranty. Enjoy!

How To: Defeat the Snow Land boss, King Dedede, in Kirby's Epic Yarn

King Dedede is the final boss in Snow Land in Kirby's Epic Yarn. He's one of the tougher bosses to defeat, since grabbing the buttons to defeat him can be challenging. Fortunately, his hammer attack is fairly easy for Kirby to dodge!

How To: Make a wireless Wii sensor bar

The title explains it all: how to make a wireless Wii sensor bar. A correction: it needs an AAA battery not AA.

How To: Play Wii games off SD cards or USB drives

While the Wii may be one the most popular console today, many people may be unfamiliar with all the many uses and features of the system. In this step by step guide, learn how to utilize the SD cards or a USB drive with the Wii (which most people are not completely familiar with). It takes you through the installation process and where the SD card/USB drive will go on both the Wii and a desktop computer. When the process is complete, you won't have to use the disc every time you play the game...

How To: Create a custom Mii avatar on a Nintendo Wii

Want to know how to generate a personalized Mii on a Nintendo Wii? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this Wii owners' guide from the folks at Butterscotch can present a complete overview of the process in about two minutes. For more information and detailed instructions, take a look.

How To: Play Wii games from a USB HDD/flash drive easily

Want to play Nintendo Wii games from a USB hard disk or thumb drive? If you have a soft- or hard-modded, you can. You'll need to install [WBFS Manager http://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=26808] and download a copy of Wii Flowa. For a detailed, step-by-step overview of the process, watch this gamer's guide.

How To: Download and play classic games on the Nintendo Wii

This video tutorial will teach you how to use the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel to download and play your favorite console games on your Nintendo Wii. To follow along, you'll need either a WiFi Internet connection or Wii Lan adapter.

How To: Copy Wii games to an external hard drive

In this tutorial, learn how to copy an original Wii game to a USB or an external harddrive without using a computer.

How To: Use Trucha Bug Restorer to mod / hack your Wii

Trucha Bug Restorer is a powerful piece of homebrew software that you can use on your Wii to make sure that it is formatted properly in order to play burned games and use other hacks. This video will show you how to use it to set up an installation of cIOS on your Wii, which is the program that allows you to play burned backup copies of games.

How To: Create a Mii on your Nintendo Wii system

Miis are tiny versions of you that live inside your video games. On the Nintendo Wii you can personalize all of your games and add a little bit of your personality and appearance to the screen. Check out this video tutorial, and learn how to create a Mini Mii on your console for gameplay.

How To: Move the disc channel on a homebrew hacked Wii

If you have a Homebrew hacked Wii, chances are you aren't using your disc channel as much as you used to. You can play back ups now, why use discs? This video will show you how to move the disc channel from its hallowed spot at the top-left of your Wii menu to somewhere more commensurate with its reduced importance on you hacked uberWii.

How To: Capture console gameplay video with a TV card

If you want to have any kind of impact in the discussion of video games online (and that is one big and jaded discussion) it will behoove you to be able to capture images of the games you're playing, be they console or PC. It's easy for the PC, but many people have no idea how to capture screenshots or videos of their console gameplay that they can share later on their computer. This video is here to clear up that confusion, showing you how to install a PCI TV card in your PC that will allow ...

How To: Build a cheap homemade DIY Nintendo Wii gun

Do you have a Nintendo Wii? Perhaps a Wii shooting video game? Well, this video tutorial will show you how you can build your very own Wii gun for about three dollars! This means you save about sixteen dollars total! This is a super cheap DIY Wii gun. There's nothing better that playing with your own homemade Wii gun!

How To: Use Balance Board controls on Shaun White Snowboarding

Learn how to perform the basic moves with the Wii Balance Board TM on Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip! for the Nintendo Wii. This is the basic controls tutorial for playing Shaun White Snowboarding using the Wii Balance Board. This is the same control from the Wii Fit game from Ubisoft.

How To: Hack Your Nintendo Wii by Installing the Homebrew Channel

Check out this video to learn how to hack your Nintendo Wii by installing the Homebrew channel. This video will take you through all of the steps required to install the Homebrew channel to get access to Homebrew channel apps. Download Hackmii and Bannerbomb before you start.

How To: Collect all three Star Coins in New Super Mario Bros Wii World 2-4

Don't you just love / hate those Mario levels that use the elements to add variety to the platforming? World 2-4 in New Super Mario Bros Wii is a classic Mario wind level, and this video will teach you how and where to find and get all of the Star Coins in the level.

How To: Defeat the Pinchin Pirates boss in Donkey Kong Country Returns

The Pinchin Pirate is, of course, a giant crab with an eyepatch and a pirate hat. He's the second boss you'll have to defeat when playing Donkey Kong Country Returns. This guide shows you the best strategies and tactics to vanquish him!

How To: Beat the Hot Wings boss fight in Hot Land of Kirby's Epic Yarn for the Wii

Want to beat the Hot Wings boss fight in the Hot Land stage of Kirby's Epic Yarn for the Nintendo Wii? See precisely how it's done with this video walkthrough from the folks at Mahalo. For all of the details, and a complete overview of how to defeat Hotwings take a look.

How To: Beat the Tube Town level in Space Land of Kirby's Epic Yarn for Nintendo Wii

Want to beat the Tube Town in the Space Land stage of Kirby's Epic Yarn for the Nintendo Wii? See precisely how it's done with this video walkthrough from the folks at Mahalo. For all of the details, and a complete overview of how to defeat the Tube Town level, take a look.

How To: Use the Wiiflow forwarder channel

In this video, we learn how to use the Wiiflow forwarder channel. First, go to the Wiiflow USB loader on your Wii. After this has loaded, click on the game that you want to use. Once you click this, go to the settings button and click through until you find the defaults for the game. You can use this Wiiflow forwarder channel to play a ton of different games in just seconds. You can view the games using different views, making it easier for you to see what games are available. When you are fi...

How To: Use a USB keyboard to type on your Wii

One of the few technical advantage the Nintendo Wii has against its high-tech rival the XBox 360 is that it allows users to browse the web on their console. Trying to do so using only a Wiimote, however, is impractical. Did you know that you could use a USB keyboard instead? This video will show you how to connect a USB keyboard to your Wii, making it MUCH easier and more practical to use the Opera web browser available in the Wii Store. Now can surf the web on a giant screen while reclined o...

How To: Burn Wii games

In this tutorial, learn how to bypass Nintendo's copyright protection and burn Wii games to share with your friends. This video will show you exactly what you need to know to outsmart the system and copy your games to another disc.

How To: Back up and burn games for the Nintendo Wii

This video tutorial from noxad presents how to backup and burn games for Nintendo Wii game console.To setup game transfer from computer to your console you'll need any type of SD memory card. In this tutorial it's Lexor 1 GB SD card.Insert SD card into your computer card reader. Autoplay window will open, asking what action you want to perform. Select Open folder to view files.You can open SD card manually from My Computer window. (Start button-Computer).Make sure your SD card has folder name...

How To: Connect a Nintendo Wii to your wireless Internet

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to connect a Nintendo Wii to the internet. Begin by going to your Wii menu and select Wii Options. Click on Wii settings and go to Wii System Settings 2. Select Internet and click on Connection Settings. Click on a connection and select Wireless Connection. Choose Search for Access Point and wait for it to finish. If found click OK and select the connection. Type in the router password and click OK. Wait for it to finish testing the connection and cli...

How To: Download and burn Wii games for Mac

mybigleftnut90 teaches you how to burn Wii backup games for Mac. After you get a backup game for the Wii, you need to make sure the DVD you'll be burning it too is DVD-R as these work best. Also make sure that the size of the backup game is not larger than the blank DVD you have. Right click on the image and click on "Open with-Disk utility." In the new program window, you click your image file name and click the button "Burn" at the top. Your speed should be 2x or 4x. Unclick verify burned d...

How To: Install Wiiflow with cIOS 249 and 222 / 223

In this video, viewers learn how to install Wiiflow. Viewers will need to install cIOS 249 and 222 / 223. Wiiflow is USB Loader that you can use on a Wii that have modified or hacked. Wiiflow enables you to play your "legal ISO backup" by using any USB storage device like a thumb drive or a more substantial external hard drive. This video demonstrates how to do this in a way that is easy to follow.

How To: Connect a Wiimote to a PC

Most people own a Wii system, or at least have seen the infamous Wiimote that serves as the controller for the console. What most people have overlooked is that this handy piece of technology can be set to work on PC. Surf the web or scroll through photo albums without the need for a mouse as the narrator takes you through an easy to follow, visual guide how to install these programs on your computer. You can even use the remote just like a classic NES controller for emulators on your compute...

How To: Install a solderless mod chip in a Nintendo Wii

This two-part video tutorial from OzModChips show a detailed instructional on how to install a solderless mod chip in a Nintendo Wii. Solderless Wii modchips are popular for the Wii gaming console. The one installed in this video is specifically the d2pro mod chip.

How To: Connect your Nintendo Wii to a wired network

Wireless can be a pain sometimes with video games on the Internet, with disconnections and signal losses, but why not revert back to a wired connection? This video will explain how to connect your Nintendo Wii to a wired network using Actiontec Powerline Networking technology. This will enable your Nintendo Wii to connect to the Internet to download games, console updates, and other information.

How To: Install virtual console games on your Wii for free

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to load virtual console games onto your Nintendo Wii. You'll need the Twilight Hack and an SD card for this process. The Twilight hack allows you to run unofficial software through the SD (Secure Digital) card inserted into your Wii. Since the Twilight hack was found through the lastest Zelda game Twilight Princess, the game needs to be loaded every time before you can run any "homebrew" software.

News: Someone Built a Working Calculator in Mario Maker & It's Awesome

Since it was released last fall, Super Mario Maker has offered us a glimpse into the minds of some of the most evil people on the planet. The game, for Nintendo Wii U, lets players create their own Super Mario levels using a deep list of objects, enemies, and green pipes, which can then be uploaded for anyone to play.

How To: Perform a Software Update on Your Nintendo Wii System

Using the Wii Options menu, it is possible to upgrade your Wii software to the latest version released from Nintendo for the gaming console. You will need to have an active internet connection to download the update first, so make sure that the Wii is connected to your home network. Be sure to check for upgrades every so often so that you have the latest features!

News: Project Café Makes Another Secretive Appearance—Fact or Fake?

Nintendo has already confirmed that the successor to the Wii will be on the market in 2012, but a lot is still unknown about Project Café, the codename given to the device. From all of the leaked information on the web, it seems like there's a significant design upgrade from the Wii, making it hard to imagine this gaming console being called or even referred to as the Wii 2.

How To: Plank with Jigglypuff in Super Smash Bros

Did you know that Jigglypuff can plank? That's right, she's an expert at planking, and if you use this tactic correctly, it can help you win a lot of tournaments in Super Smash Bros. Check out this video to learn how to plank with Jigglypuff.

How To: Control nes4iphone with a Wiimote on your iPhone or iPod Touch

Take your iPhone/ iPod Touch NES experience to the next level by pairing a Wiimote to your jailbroken Apple iOS device. Follow the simple instructions in the video to learn how to play any ROM in the nes4iphone emulator with an actual controller. It's a whole new way to enjoy your favorite Nintendo video games.

How To: Update the Flash player on your Wii so you can watch YouTube videos

If you want to watch Adobe Flash videos (such as YouTube clips) on your Nintendo Wii, you might find some difficulty in updating your Flash player. This video shows you how to properly update the software, both for your Wii in general and Adobe Flash in specific, so that you can watch as much Flash media on your Wii as you care to find! This is very quick - all you really have to do is find the right update in the Shopping section of your Wii.